Monday Message

"Let us be in a position so we are able to not only feed ourselves through the home production and storage, but others as well." (President Ezra Taft Benson)

I hope you all are doing well this week.

At the time I am writing this, it has gotten quite warm here in Iowa this week but it has been hot and windy, so windy, which equals pain for me. I feel like it has been windy every day for so long I am finding it hard to remember when it hasn't been windy, good grief.

We replaced the screen in the back door it was so very hard to do it with the metal screen. We have decided if any other screens ever need replacing, we will use the nylon screen. The reason we did metal was bugs, like grasshoppers, eat the nylon and squirrels like to climb it. It took hours. The nylon one only took less than a half hour so for us old people now I think we will go back to that. So for hours we were working on trying to put the cord in and the wind was so hard to work against, it has been like that all week.

Yesterday I put landscaping fabric down on the garden as I just can't keep up with the weeds and I did not want them to get ahead of me so I fought the winds doing that too.

Today I went through my summer clothes to see what fits for the summer ahead and donate what doesn't tomorrow.

I have still been doing some organizing in the kitchen.

I think I am pretty much done with spring cleaning. My plants are growing. Our time to plant here is after May 15th, that is the last frost date, though I have seen if frost after that.

I mentioned that it has been hot, in the mid-eighties, but Sunday it says snow flurries, incredible.

This is a pretty reminder that mostly winter is in the rearview mirror.

I have seen rhubarb coming up as well and the peach tree is budding. I would sure love peaches this year.

So hot, thunderstorms and snow flurries all in three days, good grief.

I continue to work on the sock tubes.

I know not everyone knits but for those of you that do this is my favorite sock tutorial. She does a great job explaining how to make them. She is one of my favorite watches, could be because I have family roots that go back to Norway but I think I just like her :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhoji0YQkKU - she does amazing socks, I am glad she shared how to make them.

I also made up more bread mixes while I was organizing in the kitchen. I added a small handful of five-grain cereal to them this time.

http://frugalmeasures.blogspot.com/2016/02/monday-message_29.html - having these on hand ready to go has helped me so much.

http://frugalmeasures.blogspot.com/2022/06/monday-message_20.html - here is the recipe I use. In this post, I added a handful of oats and this time I added a small handful of the five-grain cereal as well as the oats.

http://frugalmeasures.blogspot.com/2014/03/monday-message_10.html - This post has more mixes.

Missy says as we push on through our busy days, find time to rest. If you need a teacher she volunteers.